Railway Apprentice Technician

Job Title: Railway Apprentice Technician
Location: Stephenson House | 8 Stephenson Place| Blantyre| Glasgow| South Lanarkshire| G72 0LH
Salary: £ competitive + overtime
Role Type: Full time with higher education attendance

Work for the world you want to live in.

Babcock is an international company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to other markets around the world. Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy.

We have sites across the UK, that undertake projects and programmes to make the world safer and more secure. We defend nations, save lives, protect communities and are engaged on infrastructure around the globe.

For more than a century, Babcock International Group, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly skilled engineering and training support services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability, and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure, and specialist training.

Rail, as part of the Land Sector, have an exciting opportunity for a Railway Apprentice Technician to join the business working on Railway infrastructure replacement, maintenance and betterment. Engagement would be across the following disciplines signalling, telecoms, civils and electrical

You will gain academic qualifications and professional experience through a team of dedicated professionals across all function of the delivery lifecycle – scope development, estimating, design, delivery and hand over to customer

You will attend training courses and gain competence through a detailed personal development programme which will deliver underpinning knowledge and understanding in the job role to allow you to excel for yourself and the organisation

What you need:
Educated to grade C or above in GCSE/National 5 (or equivalent) in a minimum of 5 subjects which must include Maths and English. You will be enthusiastic, motivated and with good communications skills and be able demonstrate clear potential to continuously grow and develop your skills and career at Babcock as you decide which direction your progression will take

You will be required to work as part of a team, working both day and (later in your training) night shifts, including weekends, indoors and outdoors

You will also work on or near railway lines and have the ability to work on your own initiative. Comprehensive on the job training will be given in track safety and the other skills necessary in carrying out this role.

You will be required to pass a medical with our Occupational Health provider, to ensure you meet the standard for working in a safety critical role. During your apprenticeship you will earn a competitive apprentice wage and gain hands-on technical experience